LIB. II. i2. 153 



Nam Borese penetrabile frigus adurit. 

 28. Alia. 



Hanc tabulam essentice et prcesentiai appellare con- 

 suevimus. 



XII. 



Secundo 35 , facienda est comparentia ad intellectum 

 instantiarum, quac natura data privantur: quia forma 

 (ut dictum est 36 ) non minus abesse debet, ubi natura 

 data abest, quam adesse, ubi adest. Hoc vero infini- 

 tum esset in omnibus. 



Itaque subjungenda sunt negativa qffirmativis, et pri- 

 vationes inspiciendac tantum in illis subjectis, quse sunt 

 maxime cognata illis alteris, in quibus natura data 

 inest et comparet. Hanc tabulam dedinationis, sive 

 absentia in proximo 37 , appellare consuevinms. 



InstanticB in proximo, quse privantur natura calidi. 

 Ad Instantiam primam affirmatimm Instantia prima 

 negativa vel subjimctiva. 



1. Lunae, et stellarum, et cometarum radii non in- 

 veniuntur calidi ad tactum : quinetiam observari solent 

 acerrima frigora in pleniluniis 38 . 



At stellse fixae majores, quando sol eas subit, aut iis 



above, arising from men s arguing record of an active mind, and fulfils 



from their own sensations to things his own saying : &quot; Sol asque palatia 



causing them. The line quoted is et cloacas ingreditur, neque tamen 



from Virgil, Georg. i. 93. For a polluitur.&quot; (I. 120.) 

 discussion of most of the sources of 36 Supra, II. 4. 

 Heat here given, see below. 37 I n proximo, i.e. &quot;in illis sub- 



5 This Table is not merely one jectis, quse sunt maxime cognata 



of Negatives, but includes supple- illis alteris, in quibus natura data 



mentary observations and chance inest comparet.&quot; 

 limitations. It is &quot; neyativa vel sub- w The cold at full moon probably 



junctiva.&quot; One may notice its great arises from the fact that the clearest 



ignorance of Chemical truths a weather usually occurs at that time, 



faithful sign (for Bacon was not as the moon causes evaporation of 



behind his contemporaries in most clouds, and gives opportunity for 



things) of the want of scientific rarefaction of the atmosphere. But 



knowledge in his day; and also its see infr. Instance 5. (note 45.) 

 great attention. It is an admirable 



